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imagine ITim-aj'in IT, v.t. to form an image of IT in the mind: that which is imagined --- v.i. : to form mental images: to exercise --- n.imagination the act of imagining: the faculty of forming images in the mind: images which can then be communicated to others by the use of Information Technology (IT)

sensed that the encoding of information in 1s and 0s was going to change everything.

Living in Amsterdam at the time, he and Jane Metcalfe, his partner in business and life, had

parlayed his job at an obscure language-translation service into a magazine, Electric Word.

Produced on an Apple Mac, it evoked a digital universe that was not about gadgetry but

a force for global transformation.

Over the following year, the couple hammered out a business plan for a new magazine, tentatively called Millennium, that would take this revolution to the US mainstream. Technology, Rossetto predicted, would be the rock and roll of the ’90s, and the pair aimed to make Millennium its standard-bearer.